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(g) Transmitting a copy of a letter from Sir Daniel Morris 

 regarding arrangements he was endeavouring to make 

 for the transport of the members attending the proposed 

 Agricultural Conference. 



Letters from the Secretary of the Northside Sugar Planters 

 Association were submitted as follows : — 



(a) Asking that deliveries of cane tops should be made on 



a large scale to one or two centres and suggesting 

 Cinnamon Hill and Long Pond as two estates which 

 could contract to hand over to the other estates in the 

 neighbourhood, desiring of them at least as many tops as 

 were received, after the canes were cut. 



(b) Asking if planters will be allowed to inspect the opera- 



tions in the distilleries on which the apparatus to be 

 installed at the expense of the sugar industry fund is 

 erected and if they will be allowed to witness any 

 experiments conducted by the Chemist or his Assistants 

 there. 



The Secretary was instructed to acknowledge these 

 letters and refer them to the Chemist for his suggestions. 

 The Chemist submitted the following reports :— 



(a) Notifying that the Governor had granted three months 



leave of absence to Mr. Teversham upon half pay on a 

 medical certificate and the interim appointment of Mr. 

 W. E. Mace to carry on his work on half pay and 

 reporting that the latter was working efficiently. 



(b) Arrangements made for the study of insect pests by Mr. 



Panton, notifying that Mr. Sharp instead of a former 

 arrangement, would subscribe £20 and Messrs. Farqu- 

 harson & Milholland £5 so that with the £25 from the 

 Laboratory vote they had £50 available to go on with 

 the work. 



Mr. deMercado reported the entire loss of the cotton 

 plants at Hillside left for the second crop, the trees being 

 covered by aphides, but it was not certain whether these 

 were the cause of the trouble. 



Mr. Middleton said he had used on his orange trees a 

 concoction of bitterwood and bluestone in certain pro- 

 portions and by spraying with this he kept his orange 

 trees entirely clear of insect pests. 



<c) Notifying that the Governor had approved of the appoint-- 

 ment of Mr. E. J. Wortley as Assistant Chemist and of 

 Mr. G. D. Goode as Second Assistant, and that by the 

 arrangement of the salaries there would be a saving of 

 £140 and recommending that these savings should be 

 made available for the training of a new officer as a 

 Fermentation Chemist on half pay. 



(d) Minutes of the first meeting- of the Advisory Committee 

 of the sugar experiments. 



